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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
THESSALONIKI – Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis expressed his sorrow for the victims of the storm in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, on Wednesday night .
“I want to express my sorrow on behalf of all […] We mourn for the loss of these souls and we are in solidarity with their relatives, with the people who have lost their families,” the minister said, adding: “We will do everything possible as a country to stand by” the relatives of victims.”
“We are here to stand by Chalkidiki, to mourn the innocent victims and at the same time to heal the wounds very quickly, and we will do it because this is our mission, this the mission of the security forces, this is the mission of the Armed Forces, this is the mission of the local government,” the minister stressed.
Chrisochoidis praised those who worked on salvage operations and to restore normality to the lives of the citizens in Chalkidiki.
“All the damage will be restored in the next few days on the basis of the applicable laws”, while “at the moment the Central Macedonia Region is recording the damage to the infrastructure followed by the recording of the damage in houses and businesses,” he underlined.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.
For Muslim soccer players in deeply secular France, observing Ramadan is a tall order, and this is not about to change.
TOKYO (AP) — “Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film.
Sunday is International Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world to bring attention to a population that's often ignored, disparaged or victimized.